James Comey says US president treats women like ‘meat’ and there is ‘certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice’.

Comey was fired from his post as FBI director in May of last year [File: EPA]

Former FBI Director James Comey has accused US President Donald Trump of being “morally unfit” for the presidency and treating women like “pieces of meat” in his first television interview since being fired last year.

Speaking to ABC’s 20/20 programme, Comey said: “The challenge of this president is that he will stain everyone around him”.

The television interview on Sunday comes ahead of the release of Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, on Tuesday.

According to the transcript of the four-hour interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Comey said he does not think Trump is “medically unfit to be president”, but rather “morally unfit to be president”.

“A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they’re pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it, that person’s not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds,” Comey said.

The former FBI director was referring to last August’s “Unite the Right” rally that turned deadly when a white supremacist allegedly rammed his car into a group of anti-racist protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. Trump blamed “both sides” for the violence.

‘Some evidence of obstruction of justice’

Comey has been embroiled in controversy since reopening an investigation into whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while US secretary of state during Barack Obama’s first term as president compromised national security.

Clinton said the release of a letter stating the FBI had uncovered new emails just days before the elections helped hand the election to Trump.

Once Trump took office, the president and Comey feuded over the FBI’s investigation into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.

Comey said there is “certainly some evidence” when asked whether the US president committed obstruction of justice when Trump allegedly asked top aides to leave the Oval Office to privately ask Comey to drop his investigation into then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Comey added that the prosecutor would need to evaluate if “other things reflected on [Trump’s] intent”.

‘Impeachment would let Americans off the hook’

Comey said he does not hope for Trump’s impeachment because “impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they’re duty bound to do directly”.

He added: “People in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values.”

‘Trump doesn’t value the truth’

Comey repeatedly pointed to how he feels like the president does not value the truth and how he has lied to the American people.

“There’s something more important than that should unite all of us, and that is our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country,” Comey said.

“The most important being truth. This president is not able to do that. He is morally unfit to be president.”

Prior to Sunday’s interview, Trump took to Twitter, calling the former FBI director “not smart” and saying he “will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history”.

The White House has not commented on the interview, but the Republican National Committee did respond on Twitter saying Comey “isn’t credible”.

What else did Comey say?

On Clinton’s assertion the letter about the investigation into her use of a private email server help cost her the election:

“I hope not…I honestly don’t know. I sure hope not. But – the honest answer is, it wouldn’t change the way I think about it.”

On whether he would send the letter on Clinton’s emails again knowing Trump would win the election:

“I would…In fact, that was a question asked by one of my best people – a deputy general counsel in the FBI who is a very thoughtful and quiet person, who didn’t speak a lot. And that – that morning we were making that decision, she asked, ‘Should you consider that what you’re about do to may help elect Donald Trump president?’

“And I paused, and then I said, ‘Thank you for asking that question. That’s a great question.’ But the answer is not for a moment because down that path lies the death of the FBI as an independent force in American life. If I ever start considering whose political fortunes will be affected by a decision, we’re done.”

On finding out about his firing from television:

“One of the many great things about the FBI is we have some hilarious pranksters in that organisation, and so I thought it was a scam by someone on my staff. So I turn to them and I said, ‘Someone put a lotta work into that.’ And then I continued talking.

“And then that changed on the screens, which showed the different networks, changed to, ‘Comey fired.'”

“… what I see happening to the population of America right now seems very troublesome and foreboding. What I’m witnessing across the board is hordes of people increasingly separating themselves into weird, unthinking cults. Something appears to have snapped in our collective consciousness, and many individuals I used to respect (on both sides of the political spectrum) are becoming disturbingly polarized and hysterical.”

I don’t live in an echo chamber, partly because there aren’t enough people out there who think like me, but also because I constantly and intentionally attempt to challenge my worldview by reading stuff from all over the political map. I ingest as much as I can from a wide variety of intelligent sources, picking and choosing what makes sense to me, and then synthesizing it the best I can.

Though I’m certainly grounded in certain key principles, my perspective on specific issues remains malleable as I take in additional information and perspectives. I try to accept and acknowledge my own ignorance and view life as a journey of constant mental, emotionally and spiritual growth. If I’m not growing my capacity in all of those realms until the day I die, I’m doing it wrong. Life should be seen as a battle against one’s own ignorance, as opposed to an obsession with the ignorance of others. You can’t legislate morality, nor can you legislate wisdom. The only way the world will improve on a long-term sustainable basis is if more of us get wise. That’s a personal journey and it’s our individual duty to accept it.

While I’m only in control of my own behavior, this doesn’t mean that the behavior of others is irrelevant to my life. Unfortunately, what I see happening to the population of America right now seems very troublesome and foreboding. What I’m witnessing across the board is hordes of people increasingly separating themselves into weird, unthinking cults. Something appears to have snapped in our collective consciousness, and many individuals I used to respect (on both sides of the political spectrum) are becoming disturbingly polarized and hysterical. People are rapidly morphing into radicalized mental patients.

What’s worse, this environment is providing a backdrop for the most destructive people of my lifetime – neoconservatives and neo liberals – to preen around on corporate media as “the voices of reason.” This is one of the most perverse and dangerous side-effects of the current political climate. As I noted earlier today on Twitter:

This is how humans who are dangerous failures stay in power. They claim they’ll help handle a problem of their own doing.

8:33 AM – 16 Aug 2017

If in your disgust with Trump, you’re willing to run into the cold embrace of these destroyers of the middle class and the Middle East, you’ll get what you deserve. In contrast, if we really want to deal with our very real and very systemic problems, the last thing we need is a population-level mental breakdown that leads to a longing for the criminally destructive political status quo, yet that’s exactly what seems to be happening.

Ok fine, so everything seems to be rapidly collapsing, but what are we supposed to do? First of all, don’t lose your minds.

As noted earlier, Wilber thinks 10% is a key tipping point. In other words, if we can get 10% of the population to center around a yellow second-tier level of thought, which consists of a momentous leap in consciousness, the entire world will change for the better. I agree. I’m not here trying to sell you a seminar on how to expand your consciousness; rather, I think these article can help spark some sort of revelation in the minds of many of you who are already at yellow, or at least at the cusp of such a transformation. Since consciousness can and does regress under conditions of stress and fear, it’s extremely important to be conscious of your consciousness so that you don’t fall back into lower states.

Unfortunately, I see many people regressing at the moment, and I see the media as an intentional force in trying to get people to lower their consciousness. A perfect way to tell if someone is operating at a low level of consciousness is if they’re constantly placing tens of millions of their fellow citizens into an outside group they subsequently demonize. It’s perfectly fine and healthy to harshly criticize the system itself and the many powerful individuals doing awful things within it, but once you start dehumanizing large swaths of the population as a matter of your worldview, you are most certainly on a very counterproductive path that will lead to merely a blackhole of nothingness for society.

Beyond maintaining one’s sanity, it’s imperative that conscious humans create systems and communities that have as little connection as possible to the existing and rapidly disintegrating paradigm. This will create “anti-fragile” units of strength within the collapsing Potemkin village socio-economic structure that dominates our culture right now. Some of these projects need to be local, while others can be global. Community farming/food production is a great example of a local initiative, while Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general), represent global initiatives to replace the hopelessly corrupt and archaic entrenched financial system. While crazy, power-obsessed tribes focus on taking over the hopelessly corrupt centralized government in Washington D.C., we need to continue to build separate, decentralized paradigms — and there isn’t much time to waste.

Fortunately, there are plenty of very decent, very conscious people out there. I want this piece to provide encouragement to those of you already engaged in this invaluable work, as well as inspiration for those of you looking for an outlet for your creative and intellectual energies. It’s never been more important to keep our heads steady and not permit ourselves to be sucked into the mental sickness infecting so many of our fellow humans. It’s imperative that we vigilantly guard our wisdom and consciousness, because the best solutions will only come from a place of spiritual and mental health. If you descend into the gutter with everyone else, your output will also end up looking like trash. That’s the last thing we need.

“When times get tough people can unite and fight back against a common enemy, or they can be manipulated into fighting each other. Unfortunately, the latter has become increasingly popular amongst all sides in what has become an increasingly deranged, adolescent and counterproductive political environment.”

The wayfarer,Perceiving the pathway to truth,Was struck with astonishment.It was thickly grown with weeds.“Ha,” he said,“I see that none has passed hereIn a long time.”Later he saw that each weedWas a singular knife.“Well,” he mumbled at last,“Doubtless there are other roads.”

– Stephen Crane, The Wayfarer

When times get tough people can unite and fight back against a common enemy, or they can be manipulated into fighting each other. Unfortunately, the latter has become increasingly popular amongst all sides in what has become an increasingly deranged, adolescent and counterproductive political environment.

Meanwhile, the people who are truly powerful, the oligarchs of industry and their bought and paid for political minions are the ones who really benefit. The primary purpose of this website from the very beginning has been to highlight how power actually functions in imperial America with the hope that people across the political spectrum could unite and push back against the unaccountable rent-seeking practices of a common enemy. It seems I was extraordinarily naive.

When a writer and thinker such as myself is forced to admit failure, it’s a very tough pill to swallow. Writing this blog is in many ways a thankless task. I’m essentially doing volunteer work day in and day out because I passionately believe in the ideas I put forth, and to see them have little to no effect on the public debate can be very depressing. Rather than seeing human beings unite to throw off the predatory shackles that bind them as I had hoped, I see people who should be coming together punching and yelling at each other in the streets — and that’s on a good day. On bad days, people are getting shot or run over, from Virginia to London. Watching all this madness unfold while the truly powerful sit back and grin, more secure in their positions as ever before thanks to rabble fighting each other, sometimes makes me want to just stop doing this writing thing. After all, what’s the point?

But I know better. I know that karma, or action, is not about the fruits of your work, but the action itself is everything. I discussed this concept at length in the post,Do Ends Justify the Means? Here’s an excerpt.

Unfortunately, many people don’t have any principles to begin with and simply live their lives in the pursuit of their own superficial, materialistic or egotistical goals. These are the types of people who most often employ “ends justify the means” thinking, which is exactly why those of us who do have principles must reject this way of thinking and pursue a more conscious manner of achieving our ends. If that means our ends aren’t achieved in our lifetime that’s something that must be accepted. The means we use will reverberate in the universe forever and will benefit the world whether we’re able to point to definitive results or not.

As much as I understand the above to be true, it doesn’t make staring at the world devolving around me any easier. However, it does provide me with the moral fortitude to stick to my principles even if nobody is listening or cares.

If any of what I’ve written so far speaks to you, let me share a few thoughts I wrote down the other night while lamenting the mounting degeneracy that seems to be multiplying in society at large.

What I see out there is ugly. Really ugly and it’s coming from all sides. There seems to be this perverse ascendent philosophy (if you can call it that) to act as depraved as your perceived enemy. I think that’s the worst possible response and can only lead to one thing. More depravity.

I don’t consider myself particularly enlightened, but I’ve come to a few realizations and perhaps the most important one of all is to always try to be better. Look for your better nature and try to follow it. While I certainly don’t always live up to what I want to be in my language or commentary, I understand that when you stay true to your better self you are much happier and content. It’s better for you, it’s better for your relationships and it’s better for the world.

Many people seem to be losing sight of the big picture while focusing on petty arguments and fame obsession.

Picking holes in other people is easy, working on yourself is much harder. But it’s so much more important.

I wrote this post for myself as much as I did for my readers. I hope it connected with some of you, and helps you stick to your better nature as things get uglier around us. The healthy response to others getting worse, is not to imitate them, but to try to be better.

By the way, you cannot read this story in France. It has been censored. So much for Freedom of Speech hey France? Poor French. They will elect this false prophet and they will reap the consequences. You play with evil, you get burned.

“Vote for me, trust me, I will not be dishonest again, pinky swear.”

Surprise! Seriously, is anyone surprised about this? Emmanuel Macron is an old establishment figure. Who is he?
He is part of the ultimate elite club, the Illuminati. It it exists of course. I just call the hundreds of individuals that control the world the Illuminati because I don’t know what else to call them. When we hear of what goes on behind the closed doors of the wealthy, i.e, debauchery, pedophilia, murder, drugs, etc, it becomes easy to see this class of people as evil. The Western media does not think so. (Well, they are owned and controlled by them, so what would we expect?) Look at how the aristocrats of Europe, the new feudal lords, have been fawning over this man:

“European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker wished him the best.

EXPOSED: France’s Macron said to have offshore accounts, failed to pay TAXES

(Natural News) France’s Left-leaning presidential contender, Emmanuel Macron, was accused in recent weeks of being a tax cheat, allegations that he has consistently denied. But now, based on new evidence, it seems he wasn’t being honest.

As reported by The Gateway Pundit, new documents published online by an anonymous source at Anon on /pol/ (the 4Chan threat that also recently unmasked the real fascist organization Antifa, among other revelations) has now uploaded alleged proof that Macron has been evading the French tax collectors.

“Now, new documents prove he lied about – almost – everything,” The Gateway Pundit reported.

The documents published online show Macron’s involvement with a company called La Provicence LLC, with his signature affixed to an operating agreement. A banking associate, Brian Hydes, is located in the Cayman Islands, home to many offshore accounts that principles would rather not be discovered. (RELATED: Witch Hunt: Le Pen’s Chief Of Staff, Bodyguard Detained By Police)

“The first image from 4Chan” appears to show that “Macron is hiding income/assets in the Cayman Islands,” said The Gateway Pundit. A second image promises that more details about Macron’s financial dealings are on the way.

Meanwhile, Macron is in a very high-profile race against Marine Le Pen, a Right-leaning populist candidate whom many see as France’s female version of President Donald J. Trump.

“…Putin maintains its aim was directed at the “out of control” pedophilia in the United States, particularly in Washington D.C.”

Putin has delivered a scathing speech, accusing western nations of “promot[ing] the propaganda of pedophilia” through eroding Christian objectives and moral ones too. The Russian President talks about moral decay in a system and normalizing behaviors that he sees as leading to “degradation and primitivization (of culture).”

“Without the moral values that are rooted in Christianity and other world religions, without rules and moral values which have formed and been developed over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity,” Putin says.

“Christian Holidays and celebrations are abolished or ‘neutrally’ renamed, as if one were ashamed of those Christian holidays. With this method one hides away the deeper moral value of these celebrations.”

But it is the traditional notion of identity that concerns Putin. Traditional identity is being “denied or relativized” while new ideals are put forward. He questions the cost and accuses the West of placing Satan as an equal to God, and normalizing pedophilia through political correctness.

“The excesses and exaggerations of Political Correctness in these countries indeed leads to serious consideration for the legitimization of parties that promote the propaganda of pedophilia,” he said in the speech. “One has to respect the right of every minority to self-determination, but at the same time there cannot and must not be any doubt about the rights of the majority.”

The speech places the spotlight again on sex trafficking and pedophile rings. Only this month, western mainstream media ‘forgot’ to report on two very large international child trafficking rings busted. Government officials from India and Niger were involved, and possibly western elites, but the Mainstream Media chose to remain silent, begging the question why. This is one example of many where the West attempts to normalize or ignore pedophilia behaviors.

Only this year, a controversial bill was signed by Putin banning US citizens from adopting Russian children. Some critics say it was Putin’s way of fighting back at a new American law aimed at human rights abuses in Russia. But Putin maintains its aim was directed at the “out of control” pedophilia in the United States, particularly in Washington D.C.

Like most leaders, Putin is far from perfect. But technically he’s correct. How many times do you hear someone jump to the defense of a pedophile, claiming they’re just ‘sick in the head?’ This is a form of normalizing a behavior that a person has chosen to do. Laws are in place, laws are broken, child gets hurt. There is no excuse.

Putin talks about this moral erosion on an international scale too. The Red Scare is underway, but he questions why. Putin’s view is that Russia’s refusal to accept the US lead in transnationalism and thus surrender national autonomy, leads to the latest bogeyman persona the mainstream media have gifted him. It is the “moral crisis in the West” and its attempts to “remove institutions of international right and national sovereignty [via US Imperium]” for a more unified, unipolar world that create the morality problem.

Putin’s speech is not far-fetched, though granted, on face value appears this way. Any attempts to alienate an ideal or nation starts with the stripping back of morals surrounding it. Domestically, its pedophilia, religious intolerance, or the rationalizing of other similar behaviors once deemed unacceptable. According to Putin, it then stretches outward in the form of conflict to those defiant of the new objectives.

Russia faces a bombardment of western criticism. And some of it is well deserved. However, it is difficult to ignore the validity of normalizing behaviors once unacceptable, that are now harming others. Where do you draw the line?

According to Putin, it is impossible to move forward without “spiritual, cultural and national self-determination’”